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Reflex cardiac response to various olfactory stimuli in the blowfly, Protophormia terraenovae
A M Angioy1, I Tomassini Barbarossa, R Crnjar
1Dipartimento di Biologia Sperimentale, Università di Cagliari, Italy.
Neuroscience Letters
|October 29, 1987
Abstract:
In the present investigation it is shown that a reflex change in the heart activity of Protophormia flies is evoked by olfactory stimulation with several volatile substances, and particularly with those which are repellent for blowflies. Among these, i-pentanal and hexanal vapours evoked a fast, highly persistent cardiac response, whereas in the case of hexanol and ammonia vapours the response resulted slower and could be suppressed as a function of repeated stimulation.